The first thing to talk about is, Kinect was not actually hacked. Hacking would mean that someone got to our algorithms that sit inside of the Xbox and was able to actually use them, which hasn’t happened. Or, it means that you put a device between the sensor and the Xbox for means of cheating, which also has not happened. That’s what we call hacking, and that’s what we have put a ton of work and effort to make sure doesn’t actually occur.
What has happened is someone wrote an open-source driver for PCs that essentially opens the USB connection, which we didn’t protect, by design, and reads the inputs from the sensor.
The Chinese used "GPU"s instead of "CPU"s for their supercomputer record - and that is supposedly "unfair". How is it anywhere close to fair then comparing the diverse capabilities of a brain and a computer?
No mention of whether it will do automatic horizontal fit of the text as in the stock Android browser. This is the single key feature that made me go back to the stock browser.
The entire attention on this arrest and the research itself is mis-guided. No machine is ever foolproof or fully secure by itself. For it to have a semblance of reasonable security, factors outside of the machine itself need to be controlled - such as physical access/security. This physical security has been one of the primary factors the Election Commission had been banking on for the security of the election process itself. This researcher had taken questionable actions which threatened that physical security aspect - no wonder he got into trouble. From the researcher's own words here http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/jhalderm/electronic-voting-researcher-arrested-over-anonymous-source, the authorities are only interested in getting to the anonymous source who provided him the machine and have no interest in harassing him. EVMs are supposed to be the sole property of Election Commission (for a good reason) and anyone possessing one without authorization is a criminal - simple as that.
Even if it were entirely "random", how can one ever be sure it is not a PRBS sequence - seemingly appears random, but to someone who has the seed *cough*Apple*cough* all the generated IDs can be linked together trivially.
HTC did a good thing by making it open, but they lost out on being able to sell three more phones to him compared to Motorola. Motorola gets to lead at the end of the day (or 4 years in this case). It is hardly a desirable situation. My only point is, being a loyal HTC customer is of no consequence when they get a sales figure that is four times lower than a more unscrupulous competitor.
The story most probably refers to an actual fuse inside a chip that is made by a layer of polysilicon - it can be made to melt and blow just like the common electrical fuse. In this case, there is no return.
Whether you like it or not, use it or not, have a choice or not, the fact is both Flash and Adobe Reader will be there anyway on 99% of the PCs. Google is to be appreciated for taking them under its fold so to speak - instead of leaving them as separate addons that never get into the final browser build testing and regression testing. Integrating these and testing and deploying it as a whole package is certainly better for stability as well as security.
The article explanation is not too clear. The totaling is not being done on the iPhone. It is kept track at the carrier end and presented as a single data transfer in the bill with a timestamp end of the day. This makes it appear as if the phone is sending out the data at the end of the day.
Nice to read a sane and open-minded comment and after so many foolish rants from closed minded individuals here on slashdot. If it were left to the typical slashdot crowd, no far-looking scientific breakthrough would have ever progressed beyond the proposal stage.
In India, it succeeded in forcing the terrorists to shift to using satellite phones - which can be detected and traced easier. Nobody said it would totally wipe out terrorist attacks and it would be rathaer silly to assume that - it is but one more measure in a systematic approach to making life more difficult for terrorists.
I am sure it does that already. Even a lowly LVDS communication link between Integrated Circuits a few inches apart on the same board uses that technique.
Hilton Tokyo, and I suspect, other Hiltons too have pretty poor wifi service that cannot handle more than ONE device on WIFI per room. Want to connect both your laptop and your phone? You are out of luck!
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Here is a movie which chronicles the happenings around early Apple and MS computers http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168122/
The first thing to talk about is, Kinect was not actually hacked. Hacking would mean that someone got to our algorithms that sit inside of the Xbox and was able to actually use them, which hasn’t happened. Or, it means that you put a device between the sensor and the Xbox for means of cheating, which also has not happened. That’s what we call hacking, and that’s what we have put a ton of work and effort to make sure doesn’t actually occur.
What has happened is someone wrote an open-source driver for PCs that essentially opens the USB connection, which we didn’t protect, by design, and reads the inputs from the sensor.
The Chinese used "GPU"s instead of "CPU"s for their supercomputer record - and that is supposedly "unfair". How is it anywhere close to fair then comparing the diverse capabilities of a brain and a computer?
Superpack = number of years taken to compile a full Gentoo branch * number of hours taken to render slashdot home page
No mention of whether it will do automatic horizontal fit of the text as in the stock Android browser. This is the single key feature that made me go back to the stock browser.
The entire attention on this arrest and the research itself is mis-guided. No machine is ever foolproof or fully secure by itself. For it to have a semblance of reasonable security, factors outside of the machine itself need to be controlled - such as physical access/security. This physical security has been one of the primary factors the Election Commission had been banking on for the security of the election process itself. This researcher had taken questionable actions which threatened that physical security aspect - no wonder he got into trouble. From the researcher's own words here http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/jhalderm/electronic-voting-researcher-arrested-over-anonymous-source, the authorities are only interested in getting to the anonymous source who provided him the machine and have no interest in harassing him. EVMs are supposed to be the sole property of Election Commission (for a good reason) and anyone possessing one without authorization is a criminal - simple as that.
And right now, they all seem to be accessing the linked site.
Rebooting wont work, install an open source OS like Linux.
They wanted to give approximately 2000 pounds.
Even if it were entirely "random", how can one ever be sure it is not a PRBS sequence - seemingly appears random, but to someone who has the seed *cough*Apple*cough* all the generated IDs can be linked together trivially.
HTC did a good thing by making it open, but they lost out on being able to sell three more phones to him compared to Motorola. Motorola gets to lead at the end of the day (or 4 years in this case). It is hardly a desirable situation. My only point is, being a loyal HTC customer is of no consequence when they get a sales figure that is four times lower than a more unscrupulous competitor.
The story most probably refers to an actual fuse inside a chip that is made by a layer of polysilicon - it can be made to melt and blow just like the common electrical fuse. In this case, there is no return.
This is what can be done when you don't shut out your customers - I am an HTC purchaser for life now.
Except you did not purchase a single phone from them for the last 4 years.
Not that I am supporting what Motorola did.
How much is that in terms of number of football fields?
By all means, we must begin banning all automobiles that do not sport a registration number for traceability by cops. Oh wait a min..
Whether you like it or not, use it or not, have a choice or not, the fact is both Flash and Adobe Reader will be there anyway on 99% of the PCs. Google is to be appreciated for taking them under its fold so to speak - instead of leaving them as separate addons that never get into the final browser build testing and regression testing. Integrating these and testing and deploying it as a whole package is certainly better for stability as well as security.
The article explanation is not too clear. The totaling is not being done on the iPhone. It is kept track at the carrier end and presented as a single data transfer in the bill with a timestamp end of the day. This makes it appear as if the phone is sending out the data at the end of the day.
- Steve J
That is not a problem for any person who really does think or is skilled. One would be using Gray code in situations like that, not pure base-2.
Nice to read a sane and open-minded comment and after so many foolish rants from closed minded individuals here on slashdot. If it were left to the typical slashdot crowd, no far-looking scientific breakthrough would have ever progressed beyond the proposal stage.
In India, it succeeded in forcing the terrorists to shift to using satellite phones - which can be detected and traced easier. Nobody said it would totally wipe out terrorist attacks and it would be rathaer silly to assume that - it is but one more measure in a systematic approach to making life more difficult for terrorists.
smtp.gmail.com (use authentication)
Use Authentication: Yes
Port for TLS/STARTTLS: 587
Port for SSL: 465
From http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=13287
I am sure it does that already. Even a lowly LVDS communication link between Integrated Circuits a few inches apart on the same board uses that technique.
Higher resolution != Higher quality. More often than not resolution just trades off with sensitivity and noise, the real quality parameters.
Hilton Tokyo, and I suspect, other Hiltons too have pretty poor wifi service that cannot handle more than ONE device on WIFI per room. Want to connect both your laptop and your phone? You are out of luck!